Complex Needs Specialist Support Worker Role Type: Permanent Salary: £29,000 per annum (Rises to £30,500 after 1 year) Hours: Full-Time 40hrs (shift pattern, approx. 1in4 weekends) Location: Coventry ROLE OVERVIEW: We are currently recruiting for a Complex Needs Specialist Support Worker to join a small team working for a large national organisation committed to tackling homelessness throughout the UK. SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITIES and DUTIES: Employ a strength-based and trauma-informed approach to building trusting relationships with residents, using that to help create accurate, realistic and meaningful (outcome focused) support plans. Use your knowledge and experience of working with those experiencing multiple disadvantages to identify and capture risks, using that to help design mitigation strategies and inform coping mechanisms. Engage pro-actively and effectively with residents to help them identify barriers which are preventing them gaining greater levels of independence, then working collaboratively to build (and achieve) a plan for success. Uphold the highest levels of safeguarding awareness and protection for individuals, residents, colleagues and the wider community. Working within local frameworks to ensure policies and mechanisms are applied correctly. Take time to engage pro-actively with all residents in the scheme, using the less formal engagements to help deepen the understanding and effectiveness of support plans and achievement of outcomes. Work ..... full job details .....